Theorist
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Details
- Nationality
- German-American
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawingApprenticeship
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Notes
[DRAFT] German-American architect, last Bauhaus director, whose maxims 'less is more' and 'God is in the details' defined a modernism of structural clarity, universal space and refined steel-and-glass construction from the Barcelona Pavilion to the Seagram Building.
Connections
- authored Barcelona Pavilion (German Pavilion)
- authored Seagram Building
Referenced by
- Philip Johnson collaborated with
- Lilly Reich collaborated with
- Robert Venturi critiqued
- Otto Wagner influenced
Sources
- Franz Schulze and Edward Windhorst. Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Detlef Mertins. Mies. Phaidon Press, 2014.
- in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 6 of 18
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/mies-van-der-rohe/. Accessed July 17, 2026.